Black Meteors players cry out over ill-treatment

Members of Ghana’s U-23 national football team, the Black Meteors, have vented their frustrations over what they believe is ill-treatment being meted out to them by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Normalisation Committee in the lead up to and during their AFCON U-23 last round qualifying match against Algeria.

The Ghana team flew out to Algeria on Sunday ahead of the return leg of their qualifying series on Tuesday in Setif following a 1-1 result in Accra on Friday.

But the Meteors, who are chasing a first Olympic ticket since 2004, have had their preparations for this game marred by poor travel arrangements which have left some players fuming.

Apart from being asked to buy their own air tickets to come honor the game, the team also had to ration a rickety Coaster Bus with the women’s national team, the Black Queens, and often needed to wait for close to an hour after training for the bus to drop off the Queens first before coming back for them.